allegiancy
allegiancy is the alternative form of allegiance.
Meaning of allegiance
Noun
allegiance (countable and uncountable, plural allegiances)
- Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
- With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 83
- Antonyms:
- treason, disloyalty
Forms of allegiancy
| plural | allegiancies |
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Questions about allegiancy
- What is allegiancy the alternative form of?
- Allegiancy is the alternative form of allegiance.
Words near allegiancy in the dictionary
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